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Are All of Santa's Reindeer Girls?

Monday December 18, 2006
Reindeer experts say that while both male and female reindeer grow antlers every summer, the males drop theirs by early December — which means, given that the reindeer pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve are always depicted with full sets of antlers, that every one of them, even Rudolph, must be a girl! Can this possibly be true?  Read more...
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December 23, 2006 at 9:09 pm
(1) adam says:

santas reindeer are male and female because on the show “rudolph the red nosed reindeer” donner/dunder is a male who is rudolphs dad and also rudolph himself is a male!

December 24, 2006 at 6:54 pm
(2) tara says:

is it true that all of the reindeer have a coach.

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